Pick

Pick TV was renamed Pick in 2013, with a new sequence of idents introduced at the same time featuring different shots around a similar theme composited together to make up Pick idents. People walking dogs feature in this sequence for the channel.

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One of several snippets from the dog walking ident cut to make a break bumper for Pick.

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Another breakbumper featuring shots from the dog walking ident.

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Service dogs from the dog walking ident feature in another break bumper for Pick.

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Shopping trolleys from another ident for Pick feature in this shorter break bumper.

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Shots of bikes from another Pick ident feature in this break bumper.

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Another Pick break bumper based off bikes, this time featuring police motorbikes in the edit.

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A third Pick break bumper based off the bikes ident, from the 2013-2016 look.

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An example of the trailer style for Pick during the 2013-2016 look. Here advertising the show 'Monkey Life'.

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This package of idents for Pick first introduced in 2016 consist of different angle shots of a particular subject, mixed with the purple graphics of the channel. In another fine example of where the fact they'll be broadcast on lower bitrate channels is forgotten during the artistic process, this ident features a dog shaking water everywhere.

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A wine glass flies through the air before smashing, in the most dramatic fashion possible.

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A ginger cat pounces across the screen, in an ident which looks like it may have escaped out of the final batch for BBC HD.

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Bright flashing police sirens and splashing in the rain. More of those effects guaranteed to show off the best of digital compression.

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Some macro lens filming of popcorn features in this Pick ident. And we're not even going into a movie.

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A closeup on just the wheel of a car, as it spins at speed, casting rocks across the screen.

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An example of the channel promotion style for Pick, here trailing a Monkey Life Special.

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Another promo, only this time advertising multiple shows showing the variation on the endboard used in this situation.

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End Credit Promotions on Pick often trail shows both on Pick itself, and on some other channel from the Sky stable - here promoting a show on Real Lives. Several variations on the ECP colours exist, here with a turquoise tinge to the right hand side.

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An all-purple version of the ECP, here promoting shows entirely on Pick.

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A third style to the ECP for Pick, this time using a red colour off to the right hand side.

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Break bumpers on Pick are designed around different cuts of the same subjects from the main channel idents. Here the break bumper based upon the 'Dog' shaking itself.

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The break bumper based upon the Popcorn ident for Pick.

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The Pick break bumper based upon the 'Cat' ident.

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Another break bumper for Pick, this time based upon the smashing Wine Glass ident.

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Happily challenging the DVB video compression once more, the Pick break bumper based upon the Police ident.

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Another break bumper, this time based upon the Car Wheel ident.

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The COVID-19 pandemic saw a lot of changes to football coverage in 2020, resulting in it being suspended for several months in the spring. When it finally returned to screens, Sky announced a selection of the matches would air on their free channel Pick rather than just on Sky Sports. Off the back of this announcement, a temporary HD version of the channel was rushed into service from June to August, finally giving the chance to see some of the idents that had been introduced in 2016 in Full HD and without complex visuals turning to mush. The police car variant here.

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The popcorn variant of Pick's ident, as finally shown in high definition from June 2020.

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One of the idents from the Pick package to severely suffer from the SD compression finally appeared in a more presentable HD form with the launch of Pick HD in June 2020.

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The cat pick ident, as shown in HD in June 2020.

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One of the most compression-challenging idents for Pick featuring a dog shaking off water finally appeared closer to how the director intended with the launch of Pick HD in 2020.

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